Martyr
Celestina of Rome
Roman matron, a martyr under Emperor Valerian for confessing the Christian faith.
- Feast
- September 8old style September 21
- Reposed
- 2503rd century
- Place
- Rome
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saint Celestina, martyr, was a Roman matron who suffered for the Christian faith in the time of the emperor Valerian, between the years 253 and 260. She is commemorated on 8 September.
Like many other women of Rome at that time, she confessed Christ and received death. Her body was found in a cemetery founded in the time of Saint Cyriaca. Beside it were found an ampoule with her blood and parts of the neck vertebrae, which showed that she had been beheaded.
At the examination of the relics in 1731 it was concluded that the martyr had a strong build and had died at about twenty-one years of age.
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